termed the Gp)ophoni?p Notium, to diftingnjlb it from that of
Chios, a portion of the coaft of the ifiand, with a road for
veffels. Colophon was oqly feyepty ftadia or eight miles and
three quarters from Ephefus ip a ftrait courfe; hut by the wind”
ings of the hays, one hundred apd twenty or fifteen, Lyfima-
chps deftroyed it, to enlarge that city; but fonie of the Colophonians
remained at Notium, tq whom the Romans granted
imrnnnities after their war with Antioch«?, The Halys or Ha-
lefps ran by Colpphqp ■, and then, not far from the grove of
Clarps, The ftreapi was colder than apy in Ionia, and celebrated
fqf that quality by the Elegiac poets, Going out: of Colophon,
qn the left of the road, after you had palled the river
Galapn was ffiqwn ip the lecond century a barrow of
rppn, one of the leader? in the Ionic, migration r *W»d on the
fame fide of the road in the way to Clafo? was a barrow Qt
the Smyrneans and Colophonians, who fell fighting with the
Macedonians; under LyfimaclmSj,
Many difficulties have arifem concerning Clarce, Notium*
and Colophon % which are removed, by this account of their
proximity and: mutual connection. Colophon was facrificed to
the gtaodeyr of its neighbour Ephefus, The name, as at Le-
bedus, furvivcd, but without its priftine importance; and No-,
ti«m fu.ffe.rcdi a? it were* by fysnpatby, Religion and Apollo
interppfed to. refeue Claros, and the cencourfe of confulters and
devotees maintained it: and the temple. But now Colophon, if
its fite bo not occupied by the wretched: huts we have men.-«
tinned, is extindt; and Claros, with Notium, has been long
abandoned, The. brook: we eroded was the Halys. The vale
on the north-fide of the promontory, which it divides, ha? perhaps
increafed toward the fea» and the. old haven been filled up
by foil walhed from the mountains.
* Perhaps a livuletrunning into the Halys, on the .road, to. Smyrna,
•*. See Qeljarius,
When
W hen we had finilhed our firrvey of Claros, we returned to
fome huts, and pitching our tent, lay furrounded with our baggage,
men, and horfes. In the morning early we palled by
Zille, and over two ridges of Gallefus. We then entered oii
the plain of Ephefus, and travelled along the edge toward the
Ihore, until we came to the mouth of a lake, at which was a
weir of reeds, and a bridge of three arches, but of one more
than half was broken away. My companions, with our men,
eroded below it by the fea, but feeing the water deep, I dif-
mounted and walked over. The lake is long, and extended
clofe by us on our left almoft to the river Cayfter, near which
we turned up from the beach. We difeovered foon after a fifh-
erman’s hut between the lake and the river. We were ferried
over the latter in a triangular float; and in three hours arrived
at Ephefus. We pitched our tent among the ruins, which are
at a diftance from Aiafaluck.
W e had been here before, and lhall now give an account of
that journey.
C H A P . XXXII.
Diftance o f Ephefus from Smyrna — To Sedicui— To the foitrces o f
a river — To Tourbali — O f the Turcomans — Their booths
— To the Cayfter— Arrive at Aiafaluck— Relation o f a journey
in 1705.
T H E two cities Ephefus and Smyrna have been termed- the
eyes of Afia Minor. They were diftant from each other three
hundred and twenty ftadia or forty miles in a ftrait line. On
the road, one hundred and twenty from Ephefus, was a town
called Metropolis. Aiafaluck- is now reckoned thirteen- or fourteen
hours from Smyrna.
W e